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Down Range Cafe / Re: What are you watching?

« Last post by Big Frank on December 21, 2025, 02:29:46 PM »

Beetle Bailey, free on Plex. They have 20 of the 50 6 minute episodes from 1963, playing as 5 24 minute episodes. Not great, but nostalgic for anyone who read the comic in the newspaper.

There's also a 47 minute Beetle Bailey TV movie from 1990 that I haven't seen yet. 7.1/10 stars at IMDb. How have I not heard of this before? It must have been on cable, and that was before I had cable.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0306532/

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Down Range Cafe / Re: New Gun? You Gotta New Gun?

« Last post by Big Frank on December 21, 2025, 02:17:33 PM »

Something I didn't give enough thought to on the Trek-22 is, every time you want to take it down to clean it, you have to remove the optic or anything else that's attached to the top or bottom Picatinny rail. Then after you reassemble the gun you have to remount the optic and anything else, and re-zero it. The only way I can think of to avoid removing and remounting the optic would be to put a 45-degree offset mount in an M-LOK slot on one side of the forearm or the other, with another 45-degree offset mount on top of it. It might take a riser in between the 2 mounts to get it centered, and/or have enough room to reach the windage and elevation knobs of a red dot AND the on/ off switch. If anyone make a M-LOK riser that would go on the side and put a red dot or scope over the bore, I haven't seen it yet. 

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Down Range Cafe / Re: In need of music suggestions

« Last post by Big Frank on December 21, 2025, 02:04:56 PM »

It's always nice to hear Christmas classics in their native language. Like Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht in German. And since it was written in Austria, here's the Vienna Boys Choir.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_Night



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKvKMgR8H7k

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Down Range Cafe / Re: Smoke'em if ya got'em...ammo availability

« Last post by Big Frank on December 21, 2025, 01:51:02 PM »

DAY 12 — DETROIT AMMO’S 12 DAYS OF CHRISTMAS. Today’s Featured Deal: 9mm Luger Ammo — 124 Grain FMJ 200-Round Loose Pack. Five bucks off Detroit Ammo Co./Magtech Clean Range.

https://detroitammoco.com/product/9mm-luger-ammo-124-grain-fmj-200-round-loose-pack

I order 2 boxes, 25 Rounds each, of Subsonic 12 Gauge 00 Buckshot yesterday. They were only $4 off each, so I didn't think it was worth posting. I think the day before was the same deal on subsonic slugs. They had them one day, anyway.

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Down Range Cafe / Re: In need of music suggestions

« Last post by TAB on December 20, 2025, 05:05:04 PM »

https://youtu.be/4OUJLYLtqSs?si=moLc42xftHqlnC7A

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Tactical Rifle & Carbine / Re: This Is My 10/22 Rifle. What Does Yours Look Like?

« Last post by Big Frank on December 20, 2025, 02:21:23 PM »

Yeah, I got lucky on that one. Everything else I was looking at was around $75 other places for double open end wrenches, or stamped out sheet metal slim wrenches on Amazon that were only 3mm thick. I made that one as slim as it needed to be, and stuck it in the box all my 10/22 mags are in, with the threaded bottle adaptors.

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Down Range Cafe / Re: More flashlights and stuff

« Last post by Big Frank on December 20, 2025, 02:09:15 PM »

My Shadow Dune i3T EOS Small Flashlight came this afternoon. The picture on the box was solid desert tan. I wasn't too worried about it, because when they have multi-color, limited-edition flashlights, the boxes don't always have the correct pictures. The other time this happened to me was when I got the black and white plaid flashlights. They came in boxes that show a solid black flashlight on the front. One of them hasn't been opened yet, but I wrote PLAID on the box so I know which one it is. My Christmas freebie was the Stars & Stripes edition. I would have rather had the Summer Palm keychain light, but this was my second choice and I'm okay with it.

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Down Range Cafe / Re: New Gun? You Gotta New Gun?

« Last post by TAB on December 20, 2025, 08:47:15 AM »

4 builds lol

1 i am waiting on a barrel
1 waiting on me to actually pin and weld it
1 waiting on a muzzle device ( so i can mount a can lol)

dont even get me started on other stuff i am waiting on optics for...

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Down Range Cafe / Re: New Gun? You Gotta New Gun?

« Last post by Rastus on December 20, 2025, 08:09:26 AM »

So you are going to have 4 builds on going or a build and some repair/modifications?

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Down Range Cafe / Re: New Gun? You Gotta New Gun?

« Last post by TAB on December 20, 2025, 08:01:05 AM »

I ordered my Xmas present....


https://centurionarms.com/mk11-7-62-billet-receiver-set/

 

I only have 3 other ARs waiting on parts to get back in stock.   its a sickness.